Released in 2025, System Shock 2 is an action adventure game built by Nightdive Studios. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. It is localised into 5 languages according to the store listing. The game ships for Windows alone. It carries 50 achievements. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Its Steam review count passes 1 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It is a recent release, so its requirements reflect current hardware rather than a previous generation. Metacritic places it at 84.

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel or AMD Dual-Core at 2.0 GHz
GPU	GPU with DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.1 support
RAM	2 GB
Storage	5 GB
OS	Windows 7 (64-bit required)

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
GPU	GPU with DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.1 support
RAM	4 GB
Storage	5 GB
OS	Windows 10 (64-bit required)

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Setting and environment

System Shock 2 places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through dense spaces with several routes through each problem. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is in three dimensions.

Why System Shock 2 is demanding

System Shock 2 needs 64 bit Windows. The install is small at roughly 5 GB. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run System Shock 2?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the processor is the tightest fit.

System Shock 2 targets a mainstream modern PC: GPU with DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.1 support and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GPU with DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.1 support for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: CPU

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What are the minimum system requirements for System Shock 2?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel or AMD Dual-Core at 2.0 GHz; GPU: GPU with DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.1 support; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 (64-bit required).

How much storage does System Shock 2 need?

System Shock 2 needs about 5 GB of available storage.

What is the bottleneck for System Shock 2?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for System Shock 2 is the CPU.